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Significant figures, also
referred to as
significant digits or sig figs, are
specific digits within a
number written in
positional notation that carry...
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Significant Figures: The
Lives and Work of
Great Mathematicians is a 2017
nonfiction book by
British mathematician Ian
Stewart FRS
CMath FIMA, published...
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leads to ambiguity. The
number 1230400 is
usually read to have five
significant figures: 1, 2, 3, 0, and 4, the
final two
zeroes serving only as placeholders...
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Significance (policy debate), a
stock issue in
policy debate Significant figures or
significant digits, the
precision of a
numerical value Statistical significance...
- as
common in many
European countries) the
number 1
known to four
significant figures, i.e. 1±0.0005 (here the dot is a
decimal separator, as commonly...
- as
common in many
European countries) the
number 10
known to five
significant figures, i.e. 10±0.0005 (here the dot is a
decimal separator, as commonly...
- mid-1950s, the
central figures,
except Burroughs and Carr,
ended up
together in San Francisco,
where they met and
became friends of
figures ****ociated with the...
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approximation is
sometimes informally used to mean the
number of
significant figures, in
increasing order of accuracy, or to the
order of magnitude. However...
- type of
character in typesetting, text
figures and
lining figures Figure, a
synonym for
number Significant figures in a
decimal number Figure of the Earth...
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means of
significant figures.
Where not
explicitly stated, the
margin of
error is
understood to be one-half the
value of the last
significant place. For...
